“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”

Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.

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• Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.
• Homer's Odysseus wants to hear the Sirens' deadly song, so he has himself tied to the mast: he surrenders to the desire and guards against it at the same time. Is willpower the art of taking precautions against your future self?
• I have put my genius into my life; I have put only my talent into my works.
• In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Narcissus falls in love with his own reflection in the water and dies because he cannot tear himself away. Is self-admiration a kind of blindness; are loving yourself and seeing yourself the same thing?
• If the heart could think it would stop beating.